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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:53:01 -0500, David Kerber
wrote: Regardless, things will stick to wet items better than dry ones. That's an indesputable fact. Not in my experience. I have much trouble getting patches to stick to a wet tube, and tape doesn't stick to wet things very well either. Try this: take a small sliver of glass, like you find on roads that cause flats in your tires. Touch it to the tire casing at the 3:00 position very lightly. It will probably fall off. Now wet down the tire casing and the sliver of glass. Touch it to the casing at the same position using the same light force. Notice it is much less likely to fall off. Rotate the wheel. Notice the glass is more than likely still there. That's true. Now take that same sliver of glass, press it against your *dry* tire, and slide it a short distance as if you were trying to cut your tire. It likely won't cut. Now get the tire wet and try the same experiment; you'll probably see very different results. Out of curiousity I just tried this. The result, after over 30 tries: no difference between the dry tire casing and the wet one. |
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